Big thanks to Boursk and kuroshiroi for helping out this week (and all the other weeks), all the active staff that couldn't be here this week, and of course a big thanks to all you guys who have been participating (again) this season!

Sorry for the delay with the results! We were hoping the PM system would be back up, but we decided to go ahead with the results anyway.

Points Criteria
Every week:

+1 point for each user who has anime under "Currently Watching" or "Completed" that week on MAL

Double the anime's "Currently Watching" points for the week if 4 or less players have it on their active team

+25 points for each forum post in the anime's episode discussion threads in the previous two weeks (counted every two weeks)

Scored Only Once:

+2000 points for each group that fansubs the anime in English (starting from 1st episode) Joint projects count only once. Fansub groups MUST have an IRC channel or a website to be counted.

-1000 points if dropped by a fansub group unless due to license

+1500 points for each group that fansubs the anime in English (starting after episode 1 of the anime)

-750 points if dropped by a fansub group that started in the middle

+10000 points if licensed in America during the season (restricted to 1 (one) license per anime). If anime is licensed before season begins then points are awarded in first week. (Licenses shall be defined by AnimeSuki's License Database excluding Crunchyroll "licenses", which are counted as a sub)

+1000*(unweighted score) points for score ratings on MAL upon Week 7

+2000*(unweighted score) points for score ratings on MAL at the end of FAL season

-5 for each user who has anime under "Dropped" upon week 7

-10 for each user who has anime under "Dropped" at the end of FAL season

+30 points for every user favoriting the anime at the end of FAL season

He shall be receiving a PM club invitation regarding his prize shortly.

As for everyone else, thank you all for yet another great season of the Fantasy Anime League! The Fantasy Anime League will be taking a break for at least one season, but if history is of any guide, we will be back for the Fall 2010 season. Look forward to it! Whether you're a newcomer or you've participated in this past season, everyone is encouraged to join. If you haven't already, join the FAL Club to stay notified of the latest updates, including a PM for when next season's registration begins.

Till then, see you next time

-FAL Staff

Edit: A bit of a problem updating the banners. This should be fixed shortly...

I can't believe I fell out of the top ten at the very last moment. And by less than 1000 points.

I guess what I said before the start in the season still came true. I wanted to finish top twenty, but I was so sure I had a top ten spot guaranteed after Week 13, spending all those weeks before thinking I was going to fall out. Have to look on the bright side though; out of all the FAL staff, I finished the best.

Congratulations chinlamp for winning the season. And a big thanks to the FAL staff that do the counting.

I'm really loving my track record so far, 3rd last season, 1st this season, hopefully I can make it Top 3 for 3 FAL's in a row.

I would like to thank my 2 months of paying attention to speculation of anime series prior, my gut instinct on what the silly silly people that make up anime fandom will watch (myself included XD) and my various Japanese industry contacts who tell me when things go wrong so I'm warned beforehand (not really, I wish I had those >__> )

I landed to the 17th place. That's actually my best ranking since I started playing this game. Congratulations to the winners! And thanks to all the staff who made this tournament possible. I'm excited to play again next season.

So just a quick question about the banners, the top 3 don't get their own special banners this season do they? Cos I absolutely love my 3rd place banner from last season and I was hoping that there would be another one this season, but if there's not I'll just wait for the normal banner to update.

The season banners double as winner banners this season, so you can use whichever is your favourite. Sorry for the delay with them, it's become a bigger problem than it was originally... hopefully by the end of this week. Maybe next.

Unfortunately, I'm having major problems with the banners. I can't save them. Well, I can, but they won't open and only save as 'All Files' which turns out to mean .php files. I could save the last one but that wasn't using the system we have now.

Pick whichever banner you want, change the username in the URL to your own, right click -> Save Image As, and done.

Except that wasn't working for me.

Thanks so much freedoleen, now that I've saved them all I just have to figure out which to use.

Why don't you make a .gif of the three?

To be completely honest, I wish that there were banners for the Top 3 like last time, because a personalised banner would have been more awesome to me than winning the prizes, especially if the same person who did my 3rd place one from last season did it, cos having them all themed and done in the same awesome and stylish way with one or a few of my favourite characters from my favourite series of the season would be awesome, plus it would be awesome to have the same artist do them.

EDIT: I still don't know who did my 3rd place banner, so I can't even ask them.